Documentary · Germany · 1973 · 1h 25m

Land of Silence and Darkness

Land des Schweigens und der Dunkelheit

Synopsis

Through examining Fini Straubinger, an old woman who has been deaf and blind since her teens, and her work on behalf of other deaf-blind people, this film shows how the deaf-blind struggle to understand and accept a world from which they are almost wholly isolated.

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